What a neat car. '85 Renault R5 Turbo 2
 

I stumbled upon this on ebay by just typing "turbo" under the car section to see obscure things I could find. I don't know anything about this car but it sure looks cool as heck and probably goes like stink. Anybody know about this thing?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars-Trucks___1985-RENAULT-R5-TURBO-2-RARE-SCHNELL-SEATS-53K-MI-CA_W0QQitemZ130248881991QQddnZCarsQ20Q26Q20TrucksQ QddiZ2282QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item130248881991&_trk parms=39%3A1%7C65%3A10%7C240%3A1308&_trksid=p4506. c0.m245



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Speedy:)

Hemmings Muscle Machines had a good article on one not too long ago, you might be able to look it up under Hemmings.

huh

About 6 years ago, I sold off all my leftover Renault 5 (lecar) performance stuff to a guy in Arcadia CA. He had a handful of R5 Gordinis and Alpines, and two R5 turbo 2's. I wonder if it's the same guy.

Shipping a set of 5 3-bolt mag wheels from New Brunswick to California... the shipping was more than the wheels!

That's the same as Le Car?

Ugh!

no the motor is in the back seat / RWD mid eng
built for rallying

I kind of like the little thing.

Speedy:)

I've seen one of those in the flesh...they are pretty bad ass IMHO. I think the engines in those things put down a lot of hp per liter (for the time).

I've got one in the shop right now. If I ever give up the Corvairs one of these will fit the hole perfectly. They are great little hot rods

Couldn't be more different. R5 body, mid-mounted turbo-maniac motor and sports-prototype suspension. Funny coincidence, this very morning I was talking with my buddy who has 550 Maranello and 456M GTA Ferraris in his garage and a 599 Fiorano spyder in order, and he was lusting after an R5 Turbo 2. Awesome car from the era when Renault was running strong with turbo cars in Formula 1.

yeah, sort of like a Porsche 930 and a VW Beetle are the same

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My favorite car on Grand Tourismo 3. :D

Maybe I should check to see if the car is on Forza and take it for a "test drive"

Hmmm about 220 hp and about 1700 lbs. This would be a fun car.

Speedy:)

Those cars are a riot! I was just talking with my body guy last week about lusting after one of those! It's going to go for a substantial price....

JP

Up until a few years ago, there was a shop in Seattle (I think it was Seattle, anyway) that would take a standard R5 Lecar, gut it, and recreate an R5 Turbo 2. They were called R-Sport, used to have a pretty good site at R-sport.net, but now it's gone. IIRC, they had fiberglass molds for all the bodywork.

They'd use the standard R5 1.4 liter block, but with the Gordini or Alpine crossflow head and 5 sp tranny. They'd build them with great big honkin' 1.6 liter engines too! Power was generally a function of how many PSI the turbo ran, inversely related to engine life.

Pretty neat stuff... I wish that site was still around just for the "build" pics.

You guys would be shocked by how much fun can be had with a standard Fwd Lecar... they are essentially fwd/mid engined.

this car is a legend on the racing circuits

i'd take one in a hearbeat!

That was the cat's meow in the 1980s when in was in coll-ege.....

I like the modern version of the R5 too...

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The 5 Turbo won the Monte Carlo Rally in '81; a 911 won in '78. :)

I drove an '83 Lecar that my parents bought new for a year ('84-'85). IIRC, they paid under 4 grand for it new and it did not even have a radio in it. It was actually kind of quick, as light and stripped down as it was. I convinced my parents to let me trade it for a clapped out '72 240z. Still don't quite know how I pulled that one off.